The organisation that I work for is planning on purchasing 70 laptops that have OEM Windows XP Pro pre-installed. However because of software requirements, we require Windows 2000. We have been told that we can exercise our downgrade rights and install a copy of Windows 2000 instead of XP. However we would require a Windows 2000 product key to actually install it, which we can get by purchasing the Windows 2000 media.
Do we need a unique product key for every laptop (meaning that we would have to buy media for each laptop)? Or does the fact that we have a valid Windows XP licences with which we are using our downgrade rights mean we are legal? Any links to back this up?
Thanks.
Do we need a unique product key for every laptop (meaning that we would have to buy media for each laptop)? Or does the fact that we have a valid Windows XP licences with which we are using our downgrade rights mean we are legal? Any links to back this up?
Thanks.